** Reply to message from "Todd C. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Sat, 09 Jul 2005 18:55:03 -0600
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> so spake "Dave Anderson" (dave):
>
>> If I'm reading it correctly, this bit of the dmesg says that my hard
>> drive is not using DMA -- and so is running very inefficiently:
>
>The IDE controller on that machine does not have working PCI-based
>IDE so you are stuck with PIO ISA IDE. If memory serves the
>controller claims to support it but it is horribly buggy. If you
>really want DMA, drop in a cheapo PCI IDE controller and hook the
>drives up to that.
Thanks for the info. The system has no free PCI slots, so I'll either
live with it as is or look for a slightly-less-old junk system to use.
Dave
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